Last week, a US robotics company (MegaBots) challenged a Japanese one (Suidobashi Heavy Industry) to giant mech fight. This week, the Japanese company accepted the fight and wants to do it MELEE STYLE. The founder and CEO of Suidobashi Heavy Industry even got the shit talking started by stating the Americans should have made their robot cooler and that, "Just building something huge and sticking guns on it. It's...super American. We can't let another country win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture." Later, when explaining he wants to the fight to be melee style he said, "If we're going to win this, I want to punch them to scrap and knock them down to do it." Hoho -- strong words! That said, my money is 100% still on Japan just like it was in the Women's World Cup final yesterday so if you need me I'll be the guy with a crooked fake mustache on hurriedly packing a suitcase before my bookie comes to make my legs bend the wrong way.

Keep going for Japan's video response.

Thanks to Icehawg, who's got his fingers crossed the Japanese robot will be swinging a giant ninja sword.

This will last as long as, and be as cool as it sounds for one of them to awkwardly fumble itself over to and fall on the other. Oh and it'll cost $200 on PPV.

timeiskey

ppv, wow its almost like im in 20 years ago

yeuk0

They gonna kick your fat asses 'murican bastards.

pat1973

Yep, my money's on Japan.

Tony Milano

it will be so slow...there is no ed209 coming anytime soon

TheQiwiMan

Umm.. Megabots' "DudeBro" and "DouchieMcGee" do not represent the U.S.

Maybe they represent like, Axe Body Spray or something...

FearlessFarris

Yeah. I'm an American, and very proudly so. But I still kind of want Japan to win this one. "Giant fighting robots" is what they do. America beating Japan at giant fighting robots would be like any other country beating America at monster trucks or international warfare. It just isn't done.

timeiskey

Imaginary giant fighting robots is what they doThis is totally different.

For all we know, if this becomes a sport, germany or china could be best

The Magnificent Newtboy

Well so far they do real ones far more than anyone else.

timeiskey

no they dont.battlebots is U.S.boston dynamics is U.S.

disqus_k2QxOV9H7Z

You forgot the giant part.

timeiskey

which has never been done before basically.

disqus_k2QxOV9H7Z

They just did. It is in the video. Boston dynamics makes big robots and those guys made a giant robot.

timeiskey

oh please. this robot is a toy compared to Pack Mule

disqus_k2QxOV9H7Z

The difference between a big robot and a giant robot is not technology, it is size. You would need a much more advanced technology to make a self replicating robot of the size of a blood cell that can get raw materials and convert them in more of them than to the Pack Mule but this don't make them a giant robot.

timeiskey

a crane is a better giant robot than this toy that japan made

disqus_k2QxOV9H7Z

It could be a giant robot if it were classified as a robot. I don't know what is the currently most advanced crane but the cranes I know does not fill the criteria to be classified as a robot.